Filing band



- 3 Sheets-Sheet 1. F. N. 8: J. H. P..DIXON.

(No Model.)

FILING BAND.

No. 463,380. Patented Nov. 17,1891.

INVENTOHS (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

F. N. & J. H. P. DIXON. FILING BAND.

No. 463,380. Patented Nov. 17, 1891.

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 3.

F. N. 82; J. H. F. DIXON.

FILING BAND.-

Patented-Nov. 17, 1891.

FIG. 8.

IN VE/VTOHS ATTEST.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

FREDERIC NORMAN DIXON AND JAMES HENRY F. DIXON, OF PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA.

FILING BAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 463,380, dated November 1'7, 1891.

Application filed $eptember 4, 1891, Serial No. 404.721. (No model.)

' Too/ll whom it may concern: v

Be it known that we, FREDERIG NORMAN DIXON and Loans HENRY F. DIXON, both citizens of the United States, and both residents of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have jointly invented a new and useful Improvement in Filing Bands, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a class of devices adapted to encircle and secure together a number of folded papers or like articles.

Heretofore bands of rubber have been largely employed for this purpose but their use is objectionable for two reasons, namely,

first, because they lack durability, and, second, because when applied for instance to a thin package of bank notes or papers they exert such a clasping action thereon as tends to draw together the opposite edges of such package, compressing or folding it into gutter form. These objections to rubber bands being generally recognized and admitted, various substitutes have been from time to time 2 5 devised. These however have been objectionable because of their considerable cost, because the buckles or looks or clasps employed to secure the meeting extremities of the bands together-have required considera- 3o ble time to manipulate, and because the free hanging ends of such bands, necessary to adapt them for use in connection with packages of different sizes, impart to the package an untidy appearance.

It is the object of our invention to provide a filing band which may be employed to inclose and hold together a number of checks,

\ bank-notes, folded legal documents, or envelopes, or be employed to inclose paper and other boxes and articles,which shall be free from all of the foregoing objections.

In-the drawings, Figure l is a view in perspective of the partially separated parts 'which when put together compose a good form of our filing band. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of said band in readiness for use. Figs. 3 and 4' illustrate in perspective the application of said band to a package of bank notes, Fig. 3 being the front view of said package and band, and Fig. at the rear view of the same. Fig. 5 is a view in perspective of a modified form of our improved filing band. Figs. 6 and '7 are views in perspective of another form of our improved filing band, Fig.

6 exhibiting the arrangement of parts before the same are secured together, and Fig. 7 illustrating the complete band. Figs. 8, 9, 10, and 11, illustrate still another form' of our I improved band, Fig. 8 being a plan of the completed band; Fig. 9 illustrating the arrangement of parts before the same are Socured together; Fig. 10 being a transverse section of the band; and Fig. 11 illustrating the application of this form of band to a package of papers.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Our invention, broadly stated, com prehends the provision of filing bands composite of any suitable facing provided with pliable metal fingers at its respective extremities, the arran gement being such that the band is adapted to be clasped and to be self-retaining in position upon a package of circumference in excess of the length of said band.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, two of the facings aaare shown as employed in connection with each filing-band, and both said facings are supposed formed of heavy paper or paste-board, and are shown as being of equal width and length, which length is'less than that of the completed filing band. Two pliable wires or stays b b are in said figures shown as employed in the formation of the extremital fingers, and said wires are therein illustrated as being each of a general U- shaped form. In the construction of filing band shown in said figures, and composite as stated of the two facings and the two pliable wires or stays forming fingers,said pliable 0 wires or stays are illustrated as partially inclosed between the two facings, which latter are brought face to face and secured together. The portions of the U-shaped pliable Wires or stays which are in contact with the facing 5 or facings are so much of the free ends of said wires as may be necessary, according to the method in'which the facings are secured together, to insure the firm attachment of the wire to the facing material. The curved bights of the two pliable wires or stays which project beyond the extremities of the facings constitute what we term the pliable fingers of this type of filing band. The two facings shown as employed are conveniently but not restrictively secured togetherand to the wires embedded between them by means of glue or other adhesive medium. In practice when this type of filing band is employed, the facings are preferably of length equal to the average breadth of the packages to which they are applied; the projection of the fingers formed by the pliable wires beyond the facings may be of any desired length, being independent of any necessity for the tips of said fingers meeting or clasping upon each other.

In Fig. 5 we illustrate a construction in which to a single piece, a of paper, pasteboard, or other suitable material, are attached at opposite ends two U-shaped pieces of wire, I)", which form the pliable fingers of this form of filing band. In this construction, each piece of wire, b, has its extremities bent in a direction perpendicular to its plane, and said bent extremities pass through the substance of the facing and are thereupon suitably bent down or clinched to secure the metal and facing firmly together.

In the construction shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the facing is formed of aweb of paper or other suitable material, a, of proper dimensions, the two longitudinal edges of which are folded inward, one upon the other, so that the facing of the completed band is of triple thickness. In this construction we show a single wire, I), as bent to an oval form, of length in excess of that of the facing, the central portion of which oval is inclosed beneath and secured by said inturned edges of the facing, while its extremital bights or loops, extend beyond the ends of the facing and form the pliable fingers of the completed band. In this arrangement the presence of the wire within and throughout the length of the facing not only gives said facing a strong hold upon it, but said wire also tends to re-enforce the strength of the facing.

In the construction shown in Figs. 8, 9, 10, and 11, two facings a a and two pliable wires or stays b b are shown as employed. In these figures, however, the wires or stays are shown as consisting of straight sections of wire, and both the facings and the wires or stays are alike coextensive in length with the completed filing band. In this construction the two pliable wires or stays exist in parallelism between and extending from end to end of the two facings, which latter are brought face to face and secured together in any desired manner.

In the use of our improved filing band a package of papers or other articles to be confined is placed upon the central portion or facing of the band and the pliable extremital fingers of the band are turned upward and inward closely against the package, said pliable metal being of such strength as to retain the shape to which it is thus bent even against the expansive tendency of the package, and therefore to confine said package against unfolding.

The invention comprehending as stated the provision of a facing equipped with pliable extremities or fingers adapted to be clasped around a package and to be self-retaining when in place, it is obvious that whether the pliable metal necessary to constitute the fingers is as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, confined to opposite ends of the band, leaving the central portion without metal, or is as illustrated in the constructions of Figs.

6, 7, S, 9, 10, and 11, extended either doubly or singly from end to end of said facing, both arrangements are equally within the spirit of our invention. Concerning the facing it is likewise to be understood that whether it exists only at the central portion of the band as exhibited in the constructions of Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, or whether it extends from end to end thereof so as to inclose the pliable fingers, as exhibited in the construction of Figs. 8, 9, 10, and 11, both arrangementsare similarly within the spirit of our invention.

It will be understood that the facing material, if made of sufiicient size, and of suitable material, such as paper, presents a convenient surface upon which may be indorsed the contents of the package or other informa' tion.

It will be understood from consideration of the several illustrated embodiments of our invention, that in practice the band is adapted by Virtue of its pliability to confine a package of papers of circumference in excess of the length of the band, regardless of how great a space may exist betweenits contiguous ends when applied to such package, and to be self-retaining in position upon such package without a buckle or clasp, and such feature constitutes the broad idea of our invention. As a further explanation it may be said that apart from the cheapness, facility of manipulation, neatness, and durability of the construction, the feasibility and practicability of utilizing a filing band having pliable ends or fingers such as we have invented, to confine papers and at the same time retain itself in position upon such package without a buckle or kindred fastening,isin part due to the fact that the projection of the free ends of the band away from the package to a greater or less extent which might be anticipated from the slight natural reaction or outward movement of the metal after being bent into position, and which might constitute an objection to the use of the bands, is in practice when the band is applied, obviated by pressing its free ends inward upon the package past their desired ultimate set (which the compressible character of folded papers permits) so that the slight re-fiexion of the ends brings them back into a plane parallel with the plane of the central portion of the band at the othe side of the package.

Having thus described our invention, We claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. As an article of manufacture, a vfiling band embodying pliable end portions, adapted to be manually bent over or around the edges or sides of a package of circumference in excess of the length of the band and to be selfretaining in such position by virtue of the grasp of such ends upon the package, substantially as set forth.

2. As an article of manufacture, a filing band adapted to clasp a package of circumference in excess of the length of said band,-

composed of facing material provided with pliable metal fingers, substantially as set forth.

3. As an article of manufacture, a filing band consisting of a composite strip, adapted to be bent about a package and to retain the shape to which it is bent to confine the pack- 5. As an article of manufacture, a filing band consisting of a facing to which substantially U-shaped metal fingers are secured, substantially as set forth.

In testimony'that We claim the foregoing as our invention we have hereunto signed our names this 8th day of August, 1891.

FREDERIO NORMAN DIXON. JAMES HENRY F. DIXON.

In presence of- JOHN R. NOLAN, JOHN H. MORRIS. 

